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Welcome Blast off!

Steve Bone recalls the birth of T20 Rashid Khan: On top of his game Bowman’s away days: Hampshire

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Danny Briggs: Targeting the trophy

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Autographs

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Sussex Cricket Foundation

Abi Sakande: Finding a balance

Sussex Sharks Squad Hampshire Squad

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A VERY WARM WELCOME TO THE 1ST CENTRAL COUNTY GROUND

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We have an exciting group of T20 players and on paper have one of the strongest squads we have put together for some time. We all know having a good squad on paper is never actually much use in sport and all will depend on how the squad pulls together and delivers their skills under pressure from some other top-class sides in the southern group, however.

e extend a warm welcome to all our opponents – players, staff, board members and supporters. Hove is always special on a T20 day or night and I thoroughly enjoyed my first season here last year and believe this year is going to be even better.

We are thrilled to have Rashid Khan and Tom Bruce here as our overseas players and very much hope they enjoy their experience with us in Sussex. They are part of an experienced and exciting squad captained by Luke Wright and containing a number of players who have experienced the biggest tournaments around the world – Chris Jordan, Tymal Mills, Jofra Archer, David Wiese as well as Luke and Rashid. We also have Jason Gillespie who coached the Adelaide Strikers to the Big Bash title this year in Australia.

Despite the talk of the new city-based competition starting in 2020, the T20 Blast remains and will remain critical to the future of counties such as Sussex. From 2020 onwards, the Blast will be played before the new competition with all of our best players available and some places available in the new competition for wildcard selection if players perform well in the Blast. Players will want to be selected in the new tournament, but I don’t see it as competition to the Sussex Sharks Blast programme. I see it as more of a representative selection a bit like international programmes. We will fight hard to protect our T20 team and brand and make sure our best players are available.

Thank you for your support this season. A special mention to all our fans and hospitality visitors. Your support is much appreciated by us all and we hope you have a fantastic time. Also, an enormous ‘thank you’ to Boundless our T20 shirt sponsor, and Sea Life as sponsor of our brand-new family stand located by the indoor school.

Enjoy the match!

Rob Andrew, Sussex Cricket Chief Executive

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BLAST OFF! STEVE BONE RECALLS THE BIRTH OF T20…

The older you get, the faster time seems to march. Even some county championship matches are over too quickly for my liking these days.

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nd another reminder for me that the years are flying by too quickly came last month (on June 13 to be precise) when Sussex tweeted that it was the 15th anniversary of the evening they made history by playing in the first Twenty20 match anyone had seen – against Hampshire at the Rose Bowl.

A decade and a half ago it may have been, but I remember it well. Hampshire Hawks v Sussex Sharks – the game chosen to launch a new era in English domestic cricket, one where teams would bat for just 20 overs each. That was half the length of the innings that was previously the shortest we knew, the 40-over stuff many of us grew up watching on Sunday afternoons, either in the flesh or on BBC2.

For the T20 bow, the sun was out, Sky cameras in place and a huge crowd was there to see how everyone coped with this new challenge.

James Kirtley had the honour of bowling the first ball – and produced a wide. As James

Hamblin and Derek Kenway got Hants off to a flyer, Robin Martin-Jenkins saw a few deliveries belted to the boundary.

There were innovations everywhere – Sussex skipper Chris Adams, for example, found himself wired up and chatting to Sky commentator Charles Colville between deliveries.

Wasim Akram blasted the first six of the tournament – though interestingly there was only one in each innings; how times have changed – but the Hawks lost their way and were all out shortly before the 20 overs were up – although they had racked up 153, which, without anyone really knowing for sure, felt like a good score.

Kenway had top-scored with 35 while Mark Davis was the Sharks’ best bowler, with 3- 13 off three overs. Kirtley was economical with 1-17 off 3.4.

In response, Sussex rattled along at a fair rate but lost wickets regularly, only for Tim Ambrose to come in and smash 54 off 39 balls – the first T20

half century and the first T20 innings of the type that would become the norm in the years that followed.

Sussex were on 144-6 with one over left. Ed Giddins bowled it and he was too sharp.

The Sharks could have tied the scores with a six off the last ball, but they could only manage one and Hampshire were winners by five runs – a fittingly thrilling finish for a game that launched a whole new world of cricket, one that would see many such endings, and plenty even closer, as it became an

Leicestershire and Gloucestershire – and the best runners-up, Warwickshire.

There was no doubting Twenty20 had caught the public’s imagination. The poor cricket attendances in the late 1990s that had alarmed the game’s authorities and forced their hand in coming up with something new were certainly not a problem in T20 – fans, especially younger ones, came in droves and kept coming back for more.

The number of games grew - even in 2004, although the group stage still only allowed for five matches, the number of teams qualifying was doubled from four to eight to allow for quarter-finals.

It was 2007 before Sussex found their way out of their group, and that year saw them beat Yorkshire in the quarter-finals to reach their first finals day, where they lost to Kent in the semi-final.

Two years later Sussex, led by Mike Yardy, went not one better but two better and won the trophy on finals day at Edgbaston - thanks in no small part to a spell of three for nine by a certain RJ Kirtley, the man who’d launched Twenty20 with a wide six years earlier.

essential part of the county cricket calendar.

In 2003 I was working on the sports desk at the Portsmouth News and was tasked with covering a couple of Hants games. At one, I recall Hampshire executive Stuart Robertson – widely acknowledged to be the man who first came up with the idea of 20-overs-a-side cricket – coming into the press box to chat to us, modestly I might add, about how proud he was to see this new cricketing format seemingly taking off.

Many will have forgotten, but there was nothing like the 14-match group campaign we know today back then – teams were placed in three groups of six and played the other sides just once, giving them just five matches to make an impression.

Sussex had a good campaign, winning three out the four games that followed the Rose Bowl loss, but it was not quite enough to make finals day, something achieved by the three group winners – eventual champions Surrey,

Steve Bone is a sports editor with Sussex Newspapers.

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Three years ago, Rashid Khan was a 16-year-old cricketer, playing club cricket in Afghanistan. Today, he stands at cricket’s peak as the world’s number one ranked bowler in both ODIs and T20Is.

is rise has been astonishing. In the IPL he has become revered as the top bowler in the competition, desired by every franchise, and internationally his performances have been similarly stellar.

Fortunately for Sharks supporters, this world star has now arrived in Hove and the eyes of cricket fans around the globe will focus on the south coast to see if this sporting prodigy can re-produce his excellence in the Vitality Blast. But how did this very convenient marriage come about?

The link with Khan’s Big Bash coach at Adelaide Strikers, Jason Gillespie, must’ve played a big part.

“Yes that’s right. I’ve always wanted to play County Cricket and was actually approached by two or three other teams to play in England but chose Sussex because of Jason. Obviously I played under Jason in the Big Bash so we had spoken about coming to Sussex and I made my decision quite easily in the end. Jason is a great coach and I really wanted to play with him as my coach again.

Sussex gave me a perfect opportunity to do that. I also heard about Sussex through Luke Wright when we both played in the Bangladesh Premier League. Luke is one of the best people I’ve met in cricket, so I also wanted to play with him at his club. I really can’t wait to play under Luke’s captaincy and work with Jason again.”

So what are you expecting from playing in England? It will certainly be a different experience to the many other leagues you have played in around the world in recent times.

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“Yes. I think it’s going to be totally different to what I have experienced so far playing in Asia and Australia. I know English conditions are going to be unlike anything I’ve played on to date, but I have played two games at Lord’s now, so I have some idea of what it will be like. I think it will be a tough challenge for me to perform, but you know when you play T20 that your skills will be tested wherever you play. I am looking forward to the test and it will be good for me to find out how good I can be, bowling on such different surfaces. I’m not taking the challenge lightly and am expecting that it will be really challenging for me in these conditions with some really tough matches too. But I will try my best to use all my variations and bowl as well as I can in whatever situations I face.”

What do you know about your Sussex team mates and what are your hopes for your time playing at Sussex this season?

“I think the first and most basic target I have, is to do well for Sussex. I want to perform in all the matches from start to end, not just in one or two. I really want to make a big impact on the team and perform as well as I can. I know about Sussex’s bowling attack, with bowlers like Jofra Archer, Chris Jordan and Tymal Mills anyone can see that this is a very strong bowling line-up. I am excited at being a part of it. The overall target will be to do well and to try and get as far as we can in the competition.”

Just three years ago you were playing club cricket in Afghanistan, and now you are the top-rated bowler in both ODI and T20 cricket, can you put into words how it feels to have come so far, so quickly?

“It really has been like a dream. So much has happened for me in such a short time. To achieve all this in just two or three years, has been incredible. Even in my dreams, I couldn’t have believed that I would’ve become the top-rated bowler in both ODI and T20. I am very honoured, very happy and very proud to have achieved all these things. The last three years have been very special for me and have changed absolutely everything in my life. I am very grateful for that and will do everything I can to keep this continuing. My next challenge is to do that at Sussex.”

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How did you first get an interest in cricket?

“My main interest in cricket initially, was growing up and watching my brothers playing at home. Then I started playing with them and just loved cricket more and more. I didn’t really watch a lot on the TV, It was mainly more to do with playing with my brothers. They are all-natural cricketers and the more I played with them the more I learned and the better I became.”

You are a national hero in Afghanistan, but do you feel under more pressure to perform because you have a whole country willing you to do well, in every game that you play?

“I don’t really feel any pressure when I am playing around the world or playing for my country. I just try to do the right thing in every match and do the positive things and enjoy the game as best I can. I don’t really concentrate on the result, I just focus on doing the basics right. It’s important that I bowl in the right places, bowl to the team plan and the circumstances of the match

and according to the conditions of the wicket.

That’s all I really have in my mind. When I’m on the field I don’t really worry about all the fans back home, even though I know they expect a lot from me. I think it’s more important that I focus on what I am doing out on the pitch, which will then hopefully bring a positive result.”

Shahid Afridi was a hero to you and you modelled your bowling on him. What was it about him that inspired you so much?

“Yes, I’ve always been a big fan of Shahid Afridi but also of Anil Kumble of India. These were my favourite bowlers and I used to watch videos of them and look closely at their actions. I loved watching them and learnt so much from studying their bowling. I recently played at Lord’s in Afridi’s last International match. I feel very lucky to have been able to play with him in this important game.

Playing under his captaincy was something very special for me. When I met him, he congratulated me for all my success in the IPL and with

Afghanistan and we had a very good chat.

He told me I was doing well and to keep it up. It was a pleasure to talk to him about my career and he was incredibly positive and kind in the things that he said. His main message was to keep doing everything that I am doing and most importantly to keep enjoying my cricket. I will try to do that.”

All Sharks fans will be hoping that Khan enjoys his cricket here at Sussex. If he does, then there is every chance that the greatest bowler, currently, in world limited over cricket, will have a big say in helping Sussex to their first T20 silverware since 2009.

by David Brayley

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BOWMAN’S AWAY DAYS: HAMPSHIRE Good evening and welcome to The 1st Central County Ground for our next exciting Vitality Blast encounter. Hopefully you will enjoy all the facilities we have on offer here. As per previous programme notes we are looking back at some recent Sussex away day from a fan’s view point. This afternoon … the Ageas Bowl.

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was fortunate to be able to attend every Sussex Sharks T20 fixture in 2017, a very enjoyable but exhausting few weeks as you can imagine.

The trip to Southampton turned out to be one of the highlights even though the journey down was proving tricky.

First of all, it took a lot of working out which station to get off at an then which bus to catch.

I spent an age looking through timetables and online schedules. In the end I decided to just get to Southampton Central and then wing it.

I left work (near Brighton station) at four and boarded a train going west, then changed at Barnham and onwards to Southampton. The line coming in from that direction is very attractive as you pass closely by lots of water. Once there it was soon apparent that the bus option was out of the question, so I threw some money at the issue and jumped in a cab.

The Ageas Bowl is looking quite splendid these days and walking in it takes your breath away. There are a lot of eateries dotted around the concourse. As it was tea time, I chose a vegetarian noodle dish and took my place under the Hilton Hotel right behind the bowlers arm and next to my travel buddy and lifetime Sussex supporter (and occasional scorer), Paul Elford.

Our talented all-rounder, Jofra Archer played a real blinder on the night taking 4-18 but perhaps his crowning contribution came very early in the piece. Rilee Rossouw got a leading edge off David Wiese and the ball popped up to mid-wicket. Jofra was immediately on the move back peddling

looking up. A catch never really looked on but he was determined. In the dying moment he dived backwards and somehow clung on. Hampshire in shock, Sharks fans on their feet!

From that moment onwards, the visitors were always on the front foot leaving Laurie Evans (24 not out) to calmly get us over the line. After the game we stood and watched some live music basking in the glory. From what I could make out there were many Sharks fans in the house.

A brilliant evening which ended with me getting a lift with Paul right back to my doorstep in Burgess Hill. Many thanks to him for that.

Colin Bowman, Sussex super-fan

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DANNY BRIGGS:

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Danny Briggs is confident that Sussex can improve on recent seasons and possibly go on to win the Vitality Blast this time around: “We have got a good strong squad this year. We can do some damage.

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think we have got a good enough squad to win the competition, it is just we have got to be consistent through the group stage and get ourselves through. That is what we have not done in the last few years.”

The left-arm spinner claims that getting through to the knockout stages should be the team’s aim this year but admits that it will not be an easy task: “To be fair, the South group is very hard. We have all got good squads and we are all fairly close. We can all beat each other which is a great competition but obviously that means it is very hard to get through.

“I reckon we can get to the knockout stage.

We’ve got decent hitters and amongst the batters the bowling is pretty strong as well. I think if we get to the knockout stage no one is really going to want to play against us. That’s got to be our aim, to get to the knockout stage.”

When he was asked which players he believes will have an impact this season he responded: “There are tons of players in T20, it is growing so fast. There are players on every team. I think every team has got better players and the more they play the better they get.”

The England international, who made his debut in 2012 for the national T20 team, said that he does not really have a favoured form of cricket: “I have probably had more success in 20/20 in the past, but it is fairly mixed. I enjoy T20 but I also enjoy winning a four-day game as well. It is slightly different, but I have probably had a bit more success in T20 so it is probably my strongest form.”

Briggs also discussed new coach Jason Gillespie: “I think he has been very positive and it has been very relaxed. It has been good fun. We have had fun in the first part of the season. He is making sure we learn from every game we play and we have got a fairly young squad. We should learn as much as possible through this season winning or losing.”

“My T20 debut for England was obviously a highlight as well.”

When Briggs was asked what Gillespie brings to the club as a coach he responded: “A little bit more freedom I suppose. He is not really there to change anyone’s game. He tries to see the good in every player I think, which evidently gives you that freedom. He backs all of us to do our skills out on the field and actually express ourselves.”

“It is just having that freedom to go and play and enjoy it and to not get too worried about what happens in a game and to enjoy the game and back yourself as well as trust the skills we have been training.”

When talking about Afghan spin-bowler Rashid Khan it was clear to see the excitement around the 19 year-old’s arrival. Briggs said: “Hopefully he can do as well as he is at the moment. Obviously he is one of the number one bowlers in T20.

He has done so well in the IPL and international cricket. Hopefully we can feed off that as a team and see what he can do.”

Briggs, who has been at the club since 2016 went on to talk about the atmosphere at The 1st Central County Ground at a T20 game. “It’s good.

It’s nice. In the past it has been on Friday nights so it is been quite good fun and the more we win the more people are going to come back and that is how it is and I think with the squad we have this year it is going to be quite an exciting year.”

Briggs reflected on the highlights of his own T20 career to date: “Probably winning it twice with Hampshire. My T20 debut for England was obviously a highlight as well.”

by Jacob Panons

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ABI SAKANDE:

FINDING A BALANCE Abi Sakande has been a part of Sussex cricket since he was 12, rising through the ranks to sign his first professional contract with the county in 2016.

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uring his time in the Sussex set-up, Sakande was studying a degree in Human Sciences at St John’s College Oxford.

He graduated the same year he signed pro terms and the 23-year-old believes balancing his education and burgeoning cricket career was very important for him.

“Even back at school I was always aware that university was something I was keen on doing. When I was in the England age group programmes, I realised that I wanted to make sure I did well at both my cricket and my schoolwork. Even though I was spending a lot of time on my training, I didn’t let my schoolwork slip. I think that has worked out well for me and I wouldn’t be sitting where I am today if I hadn’t done that,” he said.

Sakande’s path is one he would recommend to aspiring young cricketers, but he does accept that it is not a universal approach. “I always think there is some value to be had in making sure you do as well as you can at school because I think that sometimes it’s a risk to put your eggs in one basket,” he said.

“It’s always risky because there are a lot of factors that you cannot control in a professional sporting career like injuries. The one thing you can control is making sure that you have got a fall-back option if the sport doesn’t work out.”

He also says that when he first got into the game, he had to teach his parents the rules because they were not into cricket at all. “I started off not really knowing much about the game because my parents weren’t cricketers,” Sakande said.

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“Luckily, I had a really good group of friends at school who got me into the game.

From when I was about 10, around the time of the 2005 Ashes, we went from not really knowing what the game was, to suddenly following it and getting interested and excited in cricket and wanting to play all the time. We loved it and actually got quite good. Most of us went through into county age groups.”

However, despite playing for Sussex since the Under-13s, Sakande did not realise that he was good enough to turn his passion into a career until his mid-teens. “[I realised I could make it as a professional] when I was asked to the Bunbury festival at Under15s and when I got picked on the England Development Programme at Under-16s.”

“They sat us down and said ‘This is the programme where we think we have identified cricketers who have the potential to be the world’s best and can go on and play for England in the future’. They said that to the parents as well and my parents looked at me and said ‘Are they talking about you?’ and I was like ‘I think so!’.”

“My parents told me ‘If you work hard and you commit to cricket then you never know where you might go with it.’ From that point on, given that I spent so much time playing and training anyway, I started to actually 20

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knuckle down with the goal of trying to make it as a professional,” Sakande said, “I’ve been really lucky that the time that I invested in my training has actually panned out into the beginnings of a career.”

Having now achieved a professional contract with Sussex, Sakande is fighting for a place in the bowling attack against more established and experienced cricketers like Chris Jordan and Jofra Archer, a challenge he relishes. “I think competition is productive because we help each other out in games and with our bowling. Playing consistently with people who do the same thing as you is really useful because you start to learn how each other plays,” he said.

“Everyone knows that there is competition but at the same time I still want my teammates to do well.

I would never want them to do badly even if that means they are getting picked ahead of me. I know that all I can control is playing as well as I can.”

“Ultimately our strength as an attack will hopefully be Sussex’s strength in the future, so the more we can push each other to do well, the better I think we will all be for it.”

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WOMEN’S SOFTBALL FESTIVALS Our festivals are all about fun, friends and family!

So what is a Women’ Softball Cricket Festival and is it for me?

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here’s a clue in the name - festivals are all about a celebration and women’s softball cricket festivals are no different! This summer women’s softball cricket festival’s will be taking place all over the county providing a fun social and safe way for women to enjoy cricket.

During the summer of 2018 the Sussex Cricket Foundation is running 14 softball cricket festivals across the county to introduce a fresh, new, social form of the game for women of all abilities.

These are open to everyone to play but designed specifically for those who are new to cricket. The festivals run at various locations between May to September with the emphasis on having fun rather than becoming the next Sarah Taylor or Danni Wyatt.

Local cricket clubs are hosting 13 of these softball festivals with one in September being hosted at The 1st Central County Ground here at Hove.

inda Bowen, Women’s Softball Cricket CoOrdinator said: “Women’s Softball Festivals are primarily about women having fun in a non-traditional form of the game. Ladies are encouraged to form a team to enter one of our 14 softball festivals across Sussex designed to give them a fun and social first experience of the game.

“The games are six-a-side, using a soft ball with a basic bowling action permitted, that even includes underarm, the rules have been specifically designed to make games fun, fast and easy to pick up.

“We are delighted to be working with so many local cricket clubs throughout the county, who have agreed to host one of our events. All of these days have been planned to ensure that women feel supported, relaxed and are able to learn new skills in an inclusive atmosphere.

“Participants will receive a free festival t-shirt on arrival and there will be off-field entertainment running throughout the day, including food and music.

“There is no dress code and all equipment is provided to participants. Festivals are designed for team of just six players. We don’t care who wins, we just care about whose taking part.”

So who can enter? These events are perfect for mums, wives and girlfriends who spend their time supporting the men in their life playing recreational cricket. Or girls in the office, get a team together and enter a festival to make it a team building day out or people who just want to try cricket in a low-key environment.

To find out more about the Women’s Softball Cricket Festivals running across the county this summer please visit: https://sussexcricket.co.uk/ women-girls or by contacting the Sussex Cricket Foundation Women’s Softball Maker Linda Bowen at Linda.Bowen@sussexcricket.co.uk www.sussexcricket.co.uk

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